Andrew Huberman· PhD
if you didn’t see sunlight in the morning it will delay your clock making you want to stay up later and wake up later
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if you didn’t see sunlight in the morning it will delay your clock making you want to stay up later and wake up later
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if you get light exposure too late in the evening or in the middle of the night, it's going to make it hard to want to wake up that next morning early and to go to bed early.
So if you get light early in the evening, it delays your clock. So what does that- - Meaning that makes you want to go to sleep later?
But if I were to view light, say at 3:00 a.m., then it would probably delay my clock.
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